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15 Improving bioplastics to win moulders The use of bioplastics continues to rise and injection moulders have an increasing number of options, from PBS, PLA and PEF to a new cellulose engineering plastic, writes Mark Holmes.
23 Chinaplas 2018 Preview The leading Asian plastics exhibition is moving to a new Shanghai
home. We preview injection moulding exhibitors at Chinaplas 2018 taking place in April.
29 E&E brings out the best in material developers Polymer producers and compounders are pushing back the
boundaries of material performance in order to meet the needs of today’s electrical and electronics manufacturers. By Peter Mapleston.
37 Event Preview: Making more of polypropylene New additive and filler technologies are further extending the
versatility of polypropylene. We take a look at AMI’s first Performance Polypropylene conference in Cologne in April.
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41 Drying systems benefit from new connectivity The drying process generates a significant amount of data, making it
suitable for improvements that can now be provided by Industry 4.0 developments. Mark Holmes finds out more.
58 Diary
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